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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011

If the kids ask, April just got a new bottle of shampoo.

*flap flap flap*

Take note, everyone: "Yoth!" is the new 40.

Be sure to adjust your birthday cards accordingly.

Whoah. Not only did they screw up the "screwed up" inscription, it's a cupcake cake. [patooey!] Now, CCC defenders, I want you to look at all that icing smeared under and around the individual cupcakes, and then I want you to find a real cake, and I want you to apologize to it. Do it! Do it now!!

Ahem.

Hey, you know how some people's "i"s look like "7"s, and their "g"s look like "6"s?

I am a woman in my mid-40s and "flappy" birthday is starting to become completely appropriate! I am starting to think that flying squirrels are just regular female squirrels that have reached middle age! :D

If I had a daughter, I would name her Ashle76H, but only if she was born on the sacred holiday of Yoth.

Maybe April looks great in a tight T-Shirt and she's about to go wash cars for a fundraiser. And some wise guy sent her this. Either that, or someone wants to see some "April Showers" (but who gets the cake?)

Just ask Melinda. who is celebrating her Yoth. maybe it's not 40th, maybe it's her "youth" she's celebrating. in which case, spelling counts. meanwhile, why did someone sprinkle herbs on her cake??? (never mind the curling ribbon and cheez whiz letters). What happened, did they decide the green letters looked awful so they went over it in orange? duh.

I don't understand Ashle' cake AT ALL. 76H? 76th? Now I have "76 trombones" in my head. meanwhile, who is 76 years old and named Ashley? that wasn't that common a name for decades! "Beverly" I'd believe

Yoth is a red-lit cavern beneath K'n-yan. It was once inhabited by the Serpent Men who fled here to escape the destruction of Valusia. In Yoth they built great cities, of which only ruins remain. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent people's scientific lore.

Yeah. That's why, as a grocery store cake decorator, I don't put the frosting under the cupcakes to secure them to the board like it says to do in the book. And I think it's gross to pick up a cupcake and have both the top and the bottom be all sticky.

I think that the only way to encourage someone to enjoy their Yoth is to wish them a Yoppy Birthday, but I haven't fully researched the history of celebrating Yoth. Forgive me.

The fact that there are instructions for making a "proper" CCC (patooey!) is disturbing. Mostly because that means that not only are they considered an acceptable form of cakery, but a suggested form. (I think this deserves a Kermit flail!) WHat has this world come to?!?

I am a little confused about Ashley's cake. why is there a bundle of fish hooks on it? Is she an angler? I is fish her fav food? Does she fish for compliments? Or something else, which is why her online name/id is being used on her cake?

Just wondering...

And a little disapointed that I can't see the comments for yesterday. I love it and went back last night to get an update and saw it removed.

Darn to heck the demons of stupidity and those that don't have a sense of humor and take things to seriosly.

My, my, my what a busy week you've had in the comments section! Hopefully it has finally blown over! Darn, and I had a good one too regarding those "beads" that were included... ]:D

Hey, a new way to be humiliated by the wait staff at a restaurant. It combines 'happy birthday' and the chicken dance...Flappy Birthday tooooooo youuuuuu*flap*flap*flap*flap*

LOL Yoth? Next year I'll be YY.

At first I thought it dropped on the floor...further demonstrating the messiness that is a CCC (*snort*hawk-patooie!). Then I noticed it didn't and saw the knife in the background. Why should you need a knife??? *facepalm*

Poor Ashle76H. 7 hope she 6ot some n7ce 67fts.

wv: rerace: Scooby-speak for erase. If Scooby made a mistake on a cake, wouldn't rerace it, he would just eat it and start all over.

#1 People are hoping for a rise in the water table next month. (See how I'm being non-controversial and stuff?)

#2 When someone wants a cake decorated at one minute to closing, they get a 'flappy' birthday.

#3 I know nothing about the holiday of Yoth, and certainly don't want to offend those who know everything about it, so I won't say anything.

#4 'We stewed up' left out the 'are'. As another commenter mentioned, this is graphic evidence of why we say 'patooie!' to CCCs.

#5 I also see 'congradulations', but who am I to say? Note the balloon with the squiggly tail in the upper right. Some people interpret that as a reproductive symbol. I have no idea what 'Ashle 76H' might mean. I refuse to speculate, because I might be wrong.

I hope I have restored a measure of civility to the proceedings. If you'll excuse me, I must sing to my cat.

This girl spells her name "Ashleigh." Replace the "i" and "g" with "7" and "6" and there you have it. I went to college with a girl named Ashleigh and she insisted it be pronounced as two words: Ash Leigh. She would correct you if you got it wrong!By the way, I enjoyed using lots of "apostrophes" in this "comment"!Oh, look! Word verification! Now I get it! wv: tetshole (pronounced with a long E at the end... Tetshole is a messy CCC!

It could be that Ashleigh plays some type of sport and 76 is her number. I can see some parent trying to be cute and incorporating her number into her name.... Obviously it didn't work very well, but I can totally see it happening.

Breaking News: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up & Move On and crashed into We All Have Problems before coming to a complete stop at Get the Heck Over It. Any complaints about how we operate can be forwarded to 1-800-wha-aaah with Dr. Snivel. Reporting LIVE from Quitchur Complaining!!

I too am a grocery store cake decorator, tho I haven't always been and I hope to God I will not be forever. You CAN make pretty, non-icing-covered CCCs. I have proof if you want pictures. You really NEED a tiny dollop of something to secure those cupcakes or they are gonna slide off the board and ruin little Suzi's party... other than that it's not that HARD to smooth everything over and create something pretty. (Rainee)

This has absolutely nothing to do with this post but i have to say it anyway.

I was visiting a cooking message board, and someone asked about tried and ture recipes for CCCs. It took me reading several posts and a minute or two (much longer than it should have) for me to realize they were talking about chocolate chip cookies, not cupcake cakes!

I saw day 1 of K-ing-sanity posts; but didn't get to see days 2-3 til today and I thought it odd that there were no comments at all on yesterdays. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, and I have no problem whatsoever with any king cake posts this site has made!

Now, about today...

Are they claiming the decorator intended *those* to be read as Ashleigh? Or are they claiming that the order form writer didn't write clearly enough and the wreckerator was just following orders?

Cake #1:For months the well diggers were coming up with nothing but *dry* wells. Farmer Tom was really coming down hard on them, and they knew they would have to do something — anything — to find water soon. So they secretly asked April, the Water Witch (dowser) to divine the underground water for them. Her mystical, magical powers worked and water was found. The crew was able to build a *wet* well for Farmer Tom. And thus April won her new nick-name, "Wet Well April", along with a secret contract with the well digging crew, who threw her a party...with cake!

As a teacher, I want to confirm how horrible CCCs are. I am fully on your side, Jen. Parents! Please listen! If you insist on bringing sugar to share with all the kids that aren't YOUR kids, and walk away laughing evilly, then for the love of all that is good in this world, PLEASE don't bring in a CCC. Can you imagine eager kids standing around while you are pulling apart cupcakes covered in gobs of pink icing which is underneath and around and EVERYWHERE on the paper, hands, the table, the floor... :(

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